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Fifth Sunday of Easter Többet

Libretto DEL GIORNO
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Sunday, May 15

Fifth Sunday of Easter


First Reading

Acts 14,21-27

Having preached the good news in that town and made a considerable number of disciples, they went back through Lystra, Iconium and Antioch. They put fresh heart into the disciples, encouraging them to persevere in the faith, saying, 'We must all experience many hardships before we enter the kingdom of God.' In each of these churches they appointed elders, and with prayer and fasting they commended them to the Lord in whom they had come to believe. They passed through Pisidia and reached Pamphylia. Then after proclaiming the word at Perga they went down to Attalia and from there sailed for Antioch, where they had originally been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now completed. On their arrival they assembled the church and gave an account of all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith to the gentiles.

Psalmody

Psalm 144

Antiphon

Let us praise your name, O Lord, for ever and ever.

I will give you glory, O God my King,
I will bless your name for ever.

I will bless you day after day
and praise your name for ever.

the Lord is great, highly to be praised,
His greatness cannot be measured.

Age to age shall proclaim your works,
shall declare your mighty deeds,

shall speak to your splendour and glory,
tell the tale of your wonderful works.

They will speak of your terrible deeds,
recount your greatness and might.

They will recall your abundant goodness;
age to age shall ring out your justice.

The Lord is kind and full of compassion,
slow to anger, abounding in love.

How good is the Lord to all,
compassionate to all his creatures.

All your creatures shall thank you, O Lord,
and your friends shall repeat their blessing.

They shall speak of the glory of your reign
and declare your might, O God,

to make known to men your mighty deeds
and the glorious splendour of your reign.

Yours is an everlasting kingdom;
your rule lasts from age to age.

The Lord is faithful in all in words
and loving in all his deeds.

The Lord supports all who fall
and raises all who are bowed down.

The eyes of all creatures look to you
and you give them their food in due time.

You open wide your hand
grant the desires of all who live.

The Lord is just in all his ways
and loving in all his deeds.

He is close to all who call him,
who call on him from their hearts.

He grants the desires of those who fear him,
he hears their cry and he saves them.

The Lord protects all who love him;
but the wicked he will utterly destroy.

Let me speak the praise of the Lord,
let all mankind bless his holy name
for ever, for ages unending.

Second Reading

Revelation 21,1-5

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride dressed for her husband. Then I heard a loud voice call from the throne, 'Look, here God lives among human beings. He will make his home among them; they will be his people, and he will be their God, God-with-them. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness or pain. The world of the past has gone.' Then the One sitting on the throne spoke. 'Look, I am making the whole of creation new. Write this, "What I am saying is trustworthy and will come true."

Reading of the Gospel

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Yesterday I was buried with Christ,
today I rise with you who are risen.
With you I was crucified;
remember me, Lord, in your kingdom.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

John 13,31-35

When he had gone, Jesus said: Now has the Son of man been glorified, and in him God has been glorified. If God has been glorified in him, God will in turn glorify him in himself, and will glorify him very soon. Little children, I shall be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and, as I told the Jews, where I am going, you cannot come. I give you a new commandment: love one another; you must love one another just as I have loved you. It is by your love for one another, that everyone will recognise you as my disciples.

 

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Yesterday I was buried with Christ,
today I rise with you who are risen.
With you I was crucified;
remember me, Lord, in your kingdom.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Homily

The Gospel brings us back into the upper room and has us list again to the first words of the long sermon Jesus spoke to the disciples that night. Despite the disciples' and our smallness, Jesus knows that if his disciples keep his words they will not give in to fear and they will defeat evil. He speaks with them at length that night, At the end he entrusts them to the Father. We could say that Jesus teaches us to pray for the community, like he prayed for his first community. And as to summarize in a few words the entire Gospel, he tells them, "I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another." The term ‘new' indicates the last, definitive, always valid one. In sum, the entire Gospel is summarized in loving one another with the same love of Jesus. The love that Jesus' disciples are called to live among them, is not any love, is not a feeling that starts from them or their measures, it does not spring from one's character or strength. The love the disciples are called to live is Jesus' one. That love of which elsewhere in the Gospel it is said: "Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end." Jesus does not simply repeat what is written in Leviticus: "You shall love your neighbour as yourself" (19:18), but he specifies: "Love one another as I have loved you," that is, with a love that knows no limits and that goes as far as giving one's life for others.
This is the love that Jesus asks his disciples to accept and live and that qualifies Jesus' disciples. In his First Letter, John repeats it: "In this we have come to know love, that he laid down his life for us, so we too must lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters" (1 Jn 3:16).
Jesus then adds that it is only by loving like this that they will be recognized as his disciples: "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples." Only by welcoming and living with this love will the disciples be recognized as belonging to Jesus. It is the love that is given to us in the holy liturgy. We too, like the disciples at the last supper, receive his word and the bread of the Eucharist. Every time we gather around the table of the Lord we are transformed in his body to live his same love.
Yes, the love of Jesus transfigures us, making us a holy people capable of making new all things, consoling those who are in sadness, healing those who are sick, sustaining the poor, giving hope to those who have lost it, welcoming those who are refused, and opening humanitarian corridors in the hells of war. With this love we change the world. An ancient Christian wise man, Tertullian, said, "It was the practice of love, more than anything else, that branded Christians in the eyes of pagans, "See how they love each other' they say, (while pagans hate each other), and see how they are ready to die for one another' (while they prefer to kill each other)." The new commandment is the time of fraternity and peace. The Lord has given it to the heart of the community. Let us make this heart our own.

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Prayer is the heart of the life of the Community of Sant'Egidio and is its absolute priority. At the end of the day, every the Community of Sant'Egidio, large or small, gathers around the Lord to listen to his Word. The Word of God and the prayer are, in fact, the very basis of the whole life of the Community. The disciples cannot do other than remain at the feet of Jesus, as did Mary of Bethany, to receive his love and learn his ways (Phil. 2:5).
So every evening, when the Community returns to the feet of the Lord, it repeats the words of the anonymous disciple: " Lord, teach us how to pray". Jesus, Master of prayer, continues to answer: "When you pray, say: Abba, Father". It is not a simple exhortation, it is much more. With these words Jesus lets the disciples participate in his own relationship with the Father. Therefore in prayer, the fact of being children of the Father who is in heaven, comes before the words we may say. So praying is above all a way of being! That is to say we are children who turn with faith to the Father, certain that they will be heard.
Jesus teaches us to call God "Our Father". And not simply "Father" or "My Father". Disciples, even when they pray on their own, are never isolated nor they are orphans; they are always members of the Lord's family.
In praying together, beside the mystery of being children of God, there is also the mystery of brotherhood, as the Father of the Church said: "You cannot have God as father without having the church as mother". When praying together, the Holy Spirit assembles the disciples in the upper room together with Mary, the Lord's mother, so that they may direct their gaze towards the Lord's face and learn from Him the secret of his Heart.
 The Communities of Sant'Egidio all over the world gather in the various places of prayer and lay before the Lord the hopes and the sufferings of the tired, exhausted crowds of which the Gospel speaks ( Mat. 9: 3-7 ), In these ancient crowds we can see the huge masses of the modern cities, the millions of refugees who continue to flee their countries, the poor, relegated to the very fringe of life and all those who are waiting for someone to take care of them. Praying together includes the cry, the invocation, the aspiration, the desire for peace, the healing and salvation of the men and women of this world. Prayer is never in vain; it rises ceaselessly to the Lord so that anguish is turned into hope, tears into joy, despair into happiness, and solitude into communion. May the Kingdom of God come soon among people!

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